Read article 'Scalar field could unlock supernova mystery'
A new component of gravity, the scalar gravitational field, may explain the mechanism that allows the immense explosions of type II supernovae to take place.
Read article 'VERITAS detects Crab pulsations at very high energies'
The Crab nebula is the brightest persistent gamma-ray source in the sky with radiation detected up to very high energies (VHE), above 100 GeV. The surprising result of the Very Energetic Radiatio...
Read article 'Discovery of accelerating universe wins Nobel prize'
Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess have been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant superno...
Read article '100 years of superconductivity'
Presentation of the new issue of the CERN Courier which highlights the 100th anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity.
Read article 'OPERA reports time-of-flight anomaly'
The OPERA experiment in Italy’s INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory has sent ripples round the world with its findings that neutrinos created 730 km away at CERN arrive at the detector slightly earlier than...
Read article 'Israel to become an associate member of CERN'
On 16 September, CERN’s director-general, Rolf Heuer, and the Israeli ambassador and permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva,...
Read article 'Gravitational waves: European detectors keep up the pace'
For several years the European gravitational-wave detectors GEO600 (a collaboration between Germany and the UK), close to Hanover, and Virgo (a collaboration between Italy, France, the Netherlands, Po...
Read article 'Kaonic hydrogen casts new light on strong dynamics'
Hadronic bound systems with strange quarks, such as kaonic hydrogen, are well suited for testing chiral dynamics, especially in view of the interplay between spontaneous and explicit symmetry breaking...
Read article 'ALICE revolutionizes TOF systems'
The ALICE TOF is made of 1593 MRPCs, each of which is 120 cm long and consists of a double-stack MRPC, with a total of 10 gaps 250 μm wide
Read article 'ATLAS looks at vector bosons plus jets…'
While searches with 2011 LHC data for the Higgs and new physics caught the headlines over the summer, detailed studies of 2010 data continue to yield high-precision physics.
